OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A Prolegomenon on Archaeological Complexity and Disorganization: Fragmentation and Missing Data	26
Influence of Degumming Conditions on the Stable Isotope Composition of Silk	25
Estimating the Ontogenetic Age and Sex Composition of Faunal Assemblages with Bayesian Multilevel Mixture Models	21
Development and Calibration of a Spatial Model for the Analysis of Paleolithic Archaeological Potential in the Duero Basin of the Iberian Peninsula	20
Fortress of Culture: Reinterpreting Krobo Mountain Site Through the Perspective of Persistent Places	19
Food Equality: Multiproxy Biomolecular Dietary Analysis Shows Unstratified Foodways Among Protohistoric E Baltic Communities	18
Feasting at a World Center Shrine: Paleoethnobotanical and Micromorphological Investigations of a Woodhenge Earth Oven	16
Shell Tools and Use-Wear Analysis: a Reference Collection for Prehistoric Arabia	16
Uncovering Hidden Dynamics of Past Kinship and Exchange Relations on Papua New Guinea’s South Coast (650–300 cal BP) Through Scanning Electron Microscopy Automated Mineralogy Analyses of Pottery Sherd	15
On the Exploitation and Significance of Bivalve Shells at the Magdalenian Site of Petersfels (Southwestern Germany) Using an Integrated Approach	14
Scales, Sources, and Simulations: Reviewing Studies on Human–Environment Interactions in the Mediterranean from 1000 BCE to 1000 CE	14
Beautiful, Magic, Lethal: a Social Perspective of Cinnabar Use and Mercury Exposure at the Valencina Copper Age Mega-site (Spain)	13
Paleolithic Dietary Flexibility? Methodological Considerations in Analogy-Based Reconstructions of Paleolithic Energetic Returns	13
Rethinking Occupation Intensity during the Levantine Middle Epipalaeolithic: The use of Space and Site Formation Processes at the Geometric Kebaran site of Neve David, Israel	12
The Social Life of Palimpsests: Skill, Bifacial Stone Knapping, and Differentiation in the Plowed Fields of La Martre	12
Comparative Spatial Analysis Reveals Important Structural Similarities Between Ancient Angkor and Late Anglo-Saxon Hampshire	11
The Taphonomy of Status: The Creation of Group Identity and Social Inequality in Medieval Croatia	11
Consumption Trends, Trading Patterns and Economic Development in Italy Across Centuries: Data Analysis of Roman Amphorae in a Long-Term Perspective	11
The Role of Palaeolithic Cave-Art: Estimating Social Investment in Symbolic Expressions Through the Making Cost	11
New Methods for Old Questions: The Use of Elliptic Fourier Analysis for the Formal Study of Palaeolithic Art	11
Isotopic Evidence for Mobility in the Copper and Bronze Age Cemetery of Humanejos (Parla, Madrid): a Diachronic Approach Using Biological and Archaeological Variables	11
Stability Through Movement: Theoretical and Practical Considerations of Social Space in Central European Neolithic Lakeside Settlements	10
From the Masthead to the Map: an Experimental and Digital Approach to Viking Age Seafaring Itineraries	10
Ethnoarchaeological Inductive Predictive Model: A Field Test in the Italian Alps	9
Where the Grass is Greener — Large-Scale Phenological Patterns and Their Explanatory Potential for the Distribution of Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherers in Europe	9

A Comparative Study of Hierarchical Significance Based on the Size and Terrain Elevation of Dolmens and Network Centrality: Focusing on Dolmens in Asan-myeon, Gochang County (Korea)	9
Processing Into the Past: The Chaco South Road as a Multi-Century Religious Corridor	9
Hunting Pits as Temporal Manifestations of Landscape Domestication–Large-Scale Sampling to Identify Temporality in Land Use	9
Tracing Technological Traditions Through Personal Ornaments: Steatite Ornament Production in Neolithic and Copper Age Italy	9
Anthropic Activity Markers 2.0: A Shift Towards Compositional Data Analysis	9
The Time of the Stones: A Call for Palimpsest Dissection to Explore Lithic Record Formation Processes	8
Filling the Gaps—Computational Approaches to Incomplete Archaeological Networks	8
Evaluating Random Forest Model Performance for Cave and Sinkhole Prediction in the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa: Preliminary Analysis and Variable Importance Assessments	8
Estimating the Size and Density of the La Prele Site: Implications for Early Paleoindian Group Size	8
Rethinking Persistent Places: Relationships, Affects, and Atmospheres	8
A ‘Family of Wear’: Traceological Patterns on Pebbles Used for Burnishing Pots and Processing Other Plastic Mineral Matters	7
The Tool Systems Approach: Measuring Complexity in the Primatological, Archaeological, and Ethnographic Records	7
Site-Seeing in Mallorca? Exploring the Visual Influence of Architecture and Location in Talayotic Iron Age Sites in Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain)	7
Bowhunting with Poisoned Arrows in the Afrotropics from Recent Times to the Pleistocene	7
Uncorrelated Inequalities: A Multiproxy Measure for Household Archaeology	7
‘A Life Proper to Matter’: Re-Animating Museum Collections Through New Materialism and Microwear	7
Assessing the Utility of Strontium Isotopes in Fossil Dental Calculus	7
Applications of Microct Imaging to Archaeobotanical Research	7
From Complex Techno-behaviour to Complex Attention Through the Genes of the Precuneus	6
Archaeological and Experimental Lithic Microwear Classification Through 2D Textural Analysis and Machine Learning	6
Experimental Protocol for Cooking Rabbits and its Archaeological Implications	6
Testing the Effect of Learning Conditions and Individual Motor/Cognitive Differences on Knapping Skill Acquisition	6
A Burning Platform? Critical Reflections on the Impact of Research on the Developing Bioarchaeology of Cremation	6
Oral Storytelling and Knowledge Transmission in Upper Paleolithic Children and Adolescents	6
Identifying the Impact of Soil Ingestion on Dental Microwear Textures Using a Wild Boar Experimental Model	6
Searching for the Individual: Characterising Knowledge Transfer and Skill in Prehistoric Personal Ornament Making	6
Straight from the Horse’s Mouth: Timing and Zoogeography of Domesticated Horse Arrivals in Mongolia and China	6
Concordia salus: Becoming Brass Projectiles	6
Late Mid-Pleistocene hominin fire control inferred from sooty speleothem analysis	5
Beyond the Layer: A 3D-Driven Generalized Methodology for the Quantitative Dissection of Archaeological Palimpsests	5
New Approaches to the Bipolar Flaking Technique: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Kinematic Perspectives	5
Reframing Prehistoric Human-Proboscidean Interactions: on the Use and Implications of Ethnohistoric Records for Understanding the Productivity of Hunting Megaherbivores	5
Fringe Landscapes: A Hypothesis on the Dynamics of Settlement and Mobility in Iron Age Inner Asia	5
Where the Shells Come From? A New Methodology for Establishing Collection Areas Applied to Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Shell Middens From Northern Iberia	5
Life Around the Elephant in Space and Time: an Integrated Approach to Study the Human-Elephant Interactions at the Late Lower Paleolithic Site of La Polledrara di Cecanibbio (Rome, Italy)	5
Bone Weathering Variability in Semiarid Environments: Insights from Taphonomic Experiments in the Dry Chaco, Central Argentina	5
Validating Pottery Seriation with Radiocarbon Dates: Relative and Absolute Chronology of the Early Bronze Age Necropolis in Mokrin	5
Explaining Known Past Routes, Underdetermination, and the Use of Multiple Cost Functions	5
Culture and Evolvability: a Brief Archaeological Perspective	5
A Protocol to Identify the Wear Traces on Osseous Points Used for Fishing	5
Long-Term Population Dynamics Following Innovations in Food Production	5